BURNLEY'S Labour council has moved to stop the Anti Nazi League holding its "Love Music-Hate Racism" carnival in the town. The ANL is vigorously fighting this disgraceful decision. But there is absolutely no doubt that the carnival will be going ahead, and in the north west of England.
THE BNP wants to hold its Hitler-worshipping event-the Red, White and Blue rally-in Sawley in Lancashire. Villagers in Diggle scuppered the BNP's attempts to organise the hate event there, forcing the BNP to look for another venue. The Red, White and Blue rally is promoted as a "family event".
THE AUTHORITIES allowed the BNP's former Führer, John Tyndall, to hold a meeting in Burnley last week. What a contrast to the way the carnival has been treated! Tyndall (pictured left) is the man who said, "Hitler's Mein Kampf was a revelation. These were the words of a seer and prophet."
PUBLIC SECTOR workers on poverty pay are told that a 3 percent increase is enough. But fat cat pay is going through the roof. The number of executives grabbing over £500,000 a year is now at a record high of 487.
NEXT week Trevor Ngwane and 86 others go on trial in Johannesburg, South Africa, for protesting against electricity and water cut-offs and evictions. They face jail.
ABOUT 60 campaigners lobbied councillors in Caerphilly in Wales last week against a proposed waste recycling plant being built on their doorstep. Over 2,500 local residents have signed a petition against the plant planned for the Risca quarry.
THE SOCIALIST Alliance in Hackney, east London, has unanimously selected Paul Foot to stand for mayor of Hackney in the election to be held on Thursday 17 October.
AIR TRAFFIC controllers warn that financial crises and staff shortages are creating a "very real risk" to safety. David Luxton, national secretary of the controllers' Prospect union, wrote to transport secretary Alistair Darling outlining their fears last week. He called for "immediate government intervention". It was the New Labour government which privatised National Air Traffic Services (NATS), in breach of a pledge made before the 1997 election.
SUPPORTERS OF three campaigns against deportation protested outside the Home Office on Thursday of last week. The campaigns called a joint protest to draw attention to threats to deport three families.
THERE WAS jubilation outside the High Court in London last week at news of the legal victory of civil servants' union leader Mark Serwotka. He had finally won his battle to take up the position of general secretary of the PCS union. A high court judge confirmed that his election in November 2000 was valid, and that the coup attempt by right wing former general secretary Barry Reamsbottom was illegal.
"DEMOCRACY has been enshrined in our union-the members' choice is in place. My view is that the court that matters is the members, and that court ruled in our favour.
BARRY Reamsbottom's attempted coup was about more than who controls one union. Reamsbottom is one of the vice-presidents of the Trade Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding (TUCETU). The TUCETU is an undemocratic right wing faction.
